Ash remover and sifter



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E. W. CAMPAGNA. ASH REMOVER AND SIFTER.

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ASH REF/HOVER AND SEFTER.

SPECIFOATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,384, dated February 22, 1898.

Application filed February 4, 1897. Serial No. 621,996. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE W. CAMPAGNA., of Randolph, county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Apparatus for Removing Ashes, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings,is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

My invention is an improved dustless ash removerand sifter for permanent attachment to a stove or other heater.

The removal of ashes from a stove or heater is usually attended with considerable dust, inconvenience, and labor, it being the common practice to shovel out the ashes from the stove into a pan or aslrpail, carry the latter to the cellar or elsewhere, and then dump the contained ashes into a sifter and sift out the cinders, thus usually littering up the room containing the stove, soiling the clothes of the servant or one who removes the ashes, requiring considerable walking back and forth, and oocasioning the vexatious work of standing over a sifter and sifting the ashes.

By my invention all the above inconvenience is entirely obviated, and a neat, compact, and serviceable device is provided which is always at hand to automatically sift and remove the accumulated ashes from the ash pit of the stove without handling or trouble on the part of the operator.

I provide a chute or closed conveyer directly from the ash-pit of the stove to suitable receptacles below and provide a preferably automatic sifter therein.

My invention comprises further details of construction, which will be more fully set forth and understood in connection With the accompanying description and drawings and will be more particularly defined in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrative of the preferred embodiments of my invention, Figure l is a central vertical section of myinvention in operative position in connection with an ordinary base-burner heater. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a modified con struction shown in connection with a cookingrange. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional detail on line 3 3, Fig. 4, showing the chute and its closure or damper attached to the ash-pan of a stove. Fig. 4 is a top plan view of the construction shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the casting at the mouth of the chute.

My invention may be used with any kind of a heater A in which ashes are liable to accumulate. The ash-pan or ash-pit ce is provided with a suitable openin g u', conveniently located in its bottom, and around this opening is fastened, as by bolts Z9, a casting or other chute-support B, preferably funnelshaped at its forward side, as shown at b', and provided with a cut-off device. (Shown as a slide-damper b2.) The forward projection or funnel shape b serves to catch Whatever ashes are carried forward by the damper b2 as the latter is slid open, and thereby to prevent the escape of anyashes whatever into the room, the bottom of the ash-pan covering the said projection b', as shown at a2. The mouth or funnel B is peripherally grooved or undercut at b3 to provide a comparatively air-tight joint for the closed damper and to provide suitable ways in which the latter may slide, as shown by dotted lines, Fig. 4, and full lines, Fig. 5, the handle b4 of the damper h2 being directed in a guide b5. The damper is of any desired shape, being shown `as a circular disk, Fig. et.

.Below the mouth B, I secure a chute proper, C, of any suitable shape and dimensions letthrough the iioor F, and in this chute I arrange a sifter, the latter being shown in Fig. l as one continuous inclined surface D of perforated metal or reticulated fabricI and in Fig. 2 as a broken series of short sieve-surfaces D, connected by closed walls d in a zigzag arrangement. In the latter construction directing or deflecting plates d', attached as desired, and preferably to rthe door d2, hinged at d3, serve to direct the ashes against the successive sieves, forming therewith a tortuous passage for the coarser cinders as the latter are collected from the ashes.

In order to facilitate the passage of the ashes, I provide a shaker E, having bell-crank connection e, Fig. l, and link connection c', Fig. 2, to the sieves or screen, whereby upon slightly reciprocating the handle e2 the sieves will be agitated sufficiently to dislodge the ashes and start them on down the chute.

Preferably the lower part C of the chute IOO j will be movable, as shown in Fig. l, where the latter is hinged at c and connected by a counterbalance-weight c and rope c2 over a pulley c3 to the joist J.

In Fig. l the chute is provided with a branch C2 to direct the iiner ashes into a receptacle R, the coarser ashes or cinders passing down the upper side of the screen D into a receptacle R'.

When it is desired to remove the receptacles R R', the chute C is raised sufficiently therefor, being held by its counterbalancingweight c.

In the stationary construction of chute, Fig. 2, the lower end is provided with an extension C3, shown as telescoping on the lower end of the chute and having one leg or opening directed into each barrel or ashes-receptacle. Instead of or in addition to this telescoping feature the device shown in Fig. 2 may be hinged similarly, as shown in Fig. l.

Referring to Figs. 3 and 4.-, it will be seen that I have provided agitators or stirrers g g,

pivoted at g' on the damper b2 and centrally slotted to ride over separated pins g2 on the ash-pan, so that as the damper is drawn forward to open the chute, the pan d being slotted at 'd3 to permit thereof, these stirrers will be thrown around to poke the ashes into the opening a and down the chute, and by reciprocating the damper the stirrers may be correspondingly agitated through the ashes in the ash-pan to aid in emptying the latter of its ashes.

Various changes and modifications in the construction of details and combinations of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. In adevice for the removal of ashes from a stove or heater, the combination with the ash-receptacle of the heater and the floor of the room containing the heater, of an asheschute pivotally supported below said floor and having closed connection with said ash.- receptacle, and sifting means within said chute, the pivotal support of the chute enabling it to be swung laterally and upwardly.

2. In adevice for the removal of ashes from a stove or heater, the combination of the ashreceptacle, an ashes-chute passing through the iioor and having closed connection with said ash-receptacle, a sifter movably mounted in said chute, and a handle extending above said floor adjacent to the heater and connected with said sifter to shake it, whereby the user may attend to the ashes in the heater, deliver them into the chute, and operate the sifter, all at one time, substantially as described.

3. In adevice for the removal of ashes from a stove or heater, the combination of the ashreceptacle, an ashes-chute passing through the lioor and having closed connection with said ash-receptacle, a sifter movably mounted in said chute to sift the ashes, said sifter comprising sieves and closed walls arranged alternately and in zigzag order, a handle extending above said floor adjacent to the heater and connected with-said sifter to shake it, wherebythe user may attend to the ashes in the heater, deliver them into the chute, and operate the sifter, all at one time, a door hinged to the chute in front of and independent of said sieves and deflecting-plate secured on the inside of said door and projecting when the door is closed, above the upper sides of the sieves to direct the ashes thereon, substantially as described.

4. In a device for the removal of ashes from a stove or heater, the combination of the ashreceptacle, an ashes-chute passing through the ioor and having closed connection with said ash-receptacle, a sifter movably mounted in said chute to sift the ashes, and a handle extending above said floor adjacent to the heater and connected with said sifter to shake it, whereby the user may attend to the ashes in the heater, deliver them into the chute, and operate the sifter all at one time, said chute projecting down vertically and having at its lower extremity a two-legged extension freely movable up and down thereon, said legs being independent of each other and connecting respectively with the ashes side and the cinders side of the chute and correspondingly delivering the ashes and cinders into the receptacles, substantially as described. l 5. The combination with a heater, of an ashes-chute connected therewith, a movable damper-controlling communication between the heater and its chute, and means operated by the movement of said damper to stir the ashes in the heater,substantially as described.

6. The combination with a heater, of an ashes-chute connected therewith, a movable damper controlling communication between the heater and its chute, and stirrers pivoted to said damper and to said heater, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my IOO IIO

name to this speciication in the presence of v Witnesses:

GEO. H. MAXWELL, FREDERICK L. EMERY. 

